A RARE coin featuring a popular character from children’s books has sold for ten times its original monetary value. A seller from Worcester offered the 2016 Beatrix Potter 50p coin – Jemima Puddle-Duck UK 50p – on eBay and sold it for £5. The coin was sold in July and its condition was described as […]
A theatre group brings its tour of a popular Beatrix Potter story to Colchester. Quantum Theatre and Frederick Warne and Co present a stage adaptation of The Tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck. “The Tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck” was written and illustrated by popular children’s author Beatrix Potter and first published in 1908. Popular – The Tale […]
Three Christmas cards designed by the young Beatrix Potter will be exhibited at the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) in the New Year. Created when Potter was 23 to provide friends and family with “five minutes of wonder,” it was her first commercially successful work and marked the beginning of her career as an illustrator. […]
